Melbourne: Penguin Books, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This guide is a great resource for bird lovers, watchers, and naturalists interested in Australian birds. It covers every major Australian bird group and includes a distribution map showing where each bird can be found. Details on size, weight, nesting habits... More about Nature guide birds of Australia

Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs by Geoff Jones, maps. Contains the excellent photographs of well known Australian birdwatcher and photographer Geoff Jones. The guide covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning colour photographs, including many photographs... More about Birds of Australia: a photographic guide

Brunswick: Scribe Publications, (2013. reprint). Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. Over 90 years on, A.H. Chisholm's classic is still as fresh and inspirational as an early-morning walk in the bush. His account of the secret lives of birds, their seasonal doings and their complex relationships, reflects his patient and detailed observations... More about Mateship with birds

Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 2012. Duodecimo, paperback, colour photographs, map. The water, islands, mangroves and foreshores of Moreton Bay make this area rich in both local and migratory birds. Birds of Moreton Bay includes over 140 full-colour photographs and concise information to help birdwatchers identify birds that are likely to be... More about Birds of Moreton Bay

Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This easy-to-use identification guide to 280 bird species in Australia, including the most commonly seen and rare endemic species, is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from one of Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species... More about Australian Geographic: a naturalist's guide to the birds of Australia

Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2015. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 bird species most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for residents and naturalists alike. High quality photographs are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly... More about A naturalist's guide to the birds of Australia

Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. The first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land birds. Demonstrating how intelligent and emotional birds can be, Kaplan describes complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use... More about Bird minds: cognition and behaviour of Australian native birds

Chatswood: New Holland, (2018. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs, mammals, spiders, birds, snakes and other reptiles, and sharks... More about Green guide to parrots of Australia

Flemington: Hyland House, (2000. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Revised and updated with many new photographs, this is the ideal book for all those interested in the Australian birds in their garden. This is a book for domestic birdwatchers. It is full of stories of birds and their ways... More about Birds in your garden

Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, flexibound, colour illustrations by Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin, maps. The new CSIRO Publishing Australian Bird Guide (ABG) has been ten years in the making. With all Australian endemics and non-endemics, described and illustrated in all plumage states, this guide will be... More about ABG. The Australian Bird Guide

Archerfield: Steve Parish Publishing, (2014. reprint). Octavo, paperback with plastic cover, 3400 illustrations, 800 maps. Revised and updated edition. This valuable addition to Australian bird identification has 3,400 individual identification paintings of more than 850 species, including about 1,000 of nests and eggs.More about Field guide to Australian birds

Warriewood: Woodslane Press, (2018. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. An excellent guide to the birds of Western Australia, including Christmas Island, with colour photographs and distribution maps. A revised, expanded and updated version of the 2008 publication "Birds of the greater south west"More about Birds of Western Australia: field guide

Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. SIGNED BY PENNY OLSEN and all orders will be given our William T. Cooper Night parrot BOOKMARK. Known for being Australia's most mysterious and enigmatic bird, the Night parrot has been luring its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback for... More about Night parrot: Australia's most elusive bird

Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A locality guide for bird watchers covering the area around Sydney from Wollongong to the central coast and west to the Blue Mountains.More about Sydney birds and where to find them

Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Small octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations. The authors draw on the natural history of Australian birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment. They consider changing ideas about deserts and how these have helped to understand birds and their behaviour in this driest of continents... More about Boom and bust: bird stories for a dry country

Sydney: Reed New Holland, (2000. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Fact panels throughout cover a wide range of topics. The pages are alive with entertaining and informative text accompanied by exciting action photography. Other green guides in the series are frogs; parrots; sharks and rays; birds; spiders; and mammals.More about Green guide to birds of Australia

Sydney: New Holland, (2013. second edition, reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. This new edition is a major upgrade on the previous edition. It is substantially bigger with an extra 71 pages and 64 new or extensively revised colour plates. The book has been completely reorganized, common and scientific names... More about The Slater field guide to Australian birds